Groves guilty of vehicular homicide

Olivier Uyttebrouck, Albuquerque Journal, N.M.

August 20, 2021, 11:03 AM·1 min read

Aug. 19—ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jurors found Elexus Groves guilty of two counts of homicide by vehicle but acquitted her of more serious murder charges in a 2017 crash that killed an Albuquerque woman and her 14-year-old daughter.

They reached the verdict a day after they were handed the case and began deliberating.

Groves was on trial in connection with a Jan. 18, 2017, crash that fatally injured Shaunna Arredondo-Boling, 39, her 14-year-old daughter, Shaylee Boling, and injured her 3-year-old son. Boling, a Sandia High School freshman, died at the scene. Arredondo-Boling died in a hospital days later. They boy was hospitalized with a broken leg.

Defense attorneys and prosecutors agreed that Groves had been driving a stolen van that crashed into a car fatally injuring the mother and daughter.

But Groves' defense argued the crash was a "terrible accident" that Groves, 25, had tried to avoid. Prosecutors, meanwhile, held that she was fleeing officers and acting with extreme recklessness worthy of two felony murder charges.

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